Reuters

Apple Inc on Monday called for the creation of a government commission or panel of experts on encryption to help resolve the standoff over national security and data privacy

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill has flown to the Antarctic to celebrate a divine liturgy at a scientific research station, a trip aides said was intended to show his church has global reach, Russian media reported on Wednesday.

Latin America's indigenous peoples have benefited less than other people from the region's economic boom in the first decade of this century, according to researchers at the World Bank.

Pope Francis's suggestion that Donald Trump was "not Christian" because of his views on immigration was not a personal attack on the U.S. Republican presidential candidate, Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said.

U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday announced a historic visit to Cuba next month, the first U.S. presidential trip to the country in nearly 90 years and a dramatic symbol of the thaw in hostilities between the former Cold War foes.

The European Union's migration chief warned Austria on Thursday that its plans to cap migrant numbers would break the bloc's laws.

Countries battling the Zika virus should consider new ways to curb disease-carrying mosquitoes, including testing the release of genetically modified insects and bacteria that stop their eggs hatching, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday.

A Florida man pleaded guilty on Friday to a federal hate crime for threatening to bomb two mosques and shoot their congregants shortly after November's deadly attacks in Paris.

Pope Francis arrived in Havana on Friday to meet the head of the Russian Orthodox Church nearly 1,000 years after Eastern Orthodoxy split with Rome.

A judge delayed the federal trial for the white man accused of shooting dead nine parishioners at a historic black church in Charleston last June after federal prosecutors on Thursday said the government remained undecided on seeking the death penalty.

Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders coasted to victory on a wave of voter anger in the New Hampshire presidential nominating contest, thrashing traditional U.S. politicians in a display of anti-establishment power.